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Monday, October 03, 2011

Fall 2011 Update

It was almost exactly a year ago that I posted about starting a reading schedule for the Wheel of Time series (Another Deathly Reading Schedule) after it worked so well to get me through the Harry Potter series in only a few months. I'm happy to say that unlike many of my other goal setting or attempts to get things done, the reading has been going exceedingly well and not only did I finish the Wheel of Time series (all of the released books, that is) on August 23rd of this year but I also managed to read several other books in that time frame as well including the classic 1984 and A Game of Thrones. I believe I also threw Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in there late last year at the beginning of the reading schedule also.

In October last year I also posted about how I generally grow a beard in the fall, and I'm doing that again and once more this year it is also for my Halloween costume as well. Last year I had a bitchin' Obi-wan Kenobi costume and as much as I'd love to just dress up as him every year I'm going to switch it up and only do the Old Ben costume every few years or so (maybe).

Back to the topic of reading, today I saw this a few places on the internet: an awesome Flowchart of NPR's voted top 100 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels. I am actually pretty happy with the number of books I've already read from the list, but there are quite a few that it's reminded me I should be reading very soon. Right now I am only about 12% of the way through A Storm of Swords, and not to mention the two remaining published books in the Song of Ice and Fire series and then the next 2 Dark Tower books that I have here in the house and as many more of those as I want to read. Here are some of the books from that list that are now on my list of must-read books:

The Stand by Stephen King

Ringworld by Larry Niven

Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Animal Farm by George Orwell

World War Z by Max Brooks

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Watership Down by Richard Adams (was supposed to read this one in Middle School)

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

I think this list combined with the books not on here that I was ALREADY planning on reading will keep me busy for quite a long time!

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Book Progress

Mistborn
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
Two Towers
Return of the King
Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower